Prevent the Collapse of Our Civilization

Most readers will likely scoff at the title of this article, as they consider such a collapse to be a ‘’flight of fantasy’’. In response to such starry eyed optimism, may I suggest that the title was not chosen at random, or even with a view to shock. On the contrary, the title was chosen after a great deal of consideration. 

Consider the fact that, over the period of a great many years, numerous civilizations have come into existence, risen to a peak, and then fallen into decline, finally collapsing completely. Such a collapse could happen to our civilization.  

In the ‘’Western World’’, perhaps the Roman Empire is the most famous. After a period of several hundred years, the expression ‘’Rome is Eternal’’, became wide spread. Countless people believed this. Who could blame them?

Then there is the ‘’Eastern World’’, in which the Chinese civilization was perhaps the most advanced. Some of their inventions were indeed revolutionary. These included such items as the compass, which made possible navigation of the oceans. Then there was the crossbow, as well as steel and gunpowder. In fact, at one point, the Chinese civilization was far superior to any European civilization.

Yet, just as the Roman civilization fell into decline, so too, the Chinese civilization also came to a peak, and began to rot. In time, they joined the numerous previous civilizations which preceded them. 

Historians have offered countless explanations, for the decline and collapse of those civilizations. Different historians offer different explanations, for the same civilization. Some of these explanations are quite ‘’creative’’, even ‘’entertaining’’, if nothing else. In fact, they border on a ‘’work of fiction’’. Yet they are presented as ‘’scientific facts’’. 

All bourgeois historians are careful to avoid any reference, to the existence of classes, within all civilizations. Yet it is the existence of classes, which is the key to the decline of all civilizations.

By contrast, all primitive societies, which give rise to civilization, are devoid of classes! Primitive society is class free! All members of such societies work together! Everyone ‘’pulls their own weight’’! They have to! As members of a hunting-gathering society, there is never a surplus. ‘’Slackards” are simply not tolerated! Bear in mind that expulsion from the group, amounts to a death sentence. No one, alone, can survive in such an environment. 

Yet in different parts of the world, stone age people learned to invent various articles, such as spears, knives, bows and arrows, needles and thread, as well as pottery. 

In due time, in various part of the world, someone got the brilliant idea of sowing seeds, rather than just harvesting the wild crop. As well, animals were also domesticated and bred. Lo and behold, for the first time, a surplus was created. At the same time, this surplus gave rise to classes. Of course, the first classes were slaves and slave owners. Civilization!

Frequently, under civilization, these newly created ruling classes had certain progressive characteristics. They were able to create works of art and monuments, many of which still stand, to this day. Yet these creative impulses were ‘’not hereditary’’. All too many of their descendants, were not interested in ‘’following in the footsteps’’, of their ancestors. In fact, they became downright reactionary, lazy, ‘’slothful’’, preferring to allow nature ‘’to take its own course’’. And so it did. 

After a number of generations, the civilizations fell into decline, and eventually collapsed. Even the knowledge of how to create certain items, was lost. We can only stress the fact that each previous civilization fell into decline, and eventually collapsed, because the ruling classes became reactionary. Further, there was no progressive class to counteract this decline.

A very clear cut example of this, is provided by the ruins of a ‘’temple complex’’, referred to as Gobekli Tepi, within the country of Turkey. It is estimated that, possibly twelve thousand years ago, people came together, carved, transported and erected a number of ‘’T-shaped pillars’’, many of them 5.5 meters in length, and weighing as much as 20 tons! There is also extensive art work carved into these pillars.

This complex was clearly built over a period of a great many years. Further, the oldest construction was of a far better quality than the more recent additions. This suggests that the society which built them, was in a process of decay. Rather than progressing, it was reverting, to a more primitive state. This is characteristic of a civilization in decline.

This presents a little problem for modern day archaeologists, as they believe that agriculture, the cultivation of crops, did not begin until hundreds of years later. So how could stone age people, members of a hunting-gathering society, manage to carve, transport and erect those stones, using tools which are not available to such people?

Such a ‘’paradox’’ was squarely faced by the scientists, and some of them managed to ‘’rise to the occasion’’. They maintain that members of a hunting-gathering society, stone age people, came together and ‘’organized the construction of the complex’’. 

Just how members of a primitive society, without having any surplus, living constantly on the verge of starvation, could find the time and resources to build such an elaborate complex, with their ‘’bare hands’’, is carefully overlooked. Not possible! Yet such nonsense is presented as a ‘’scientific theory’’!

Such an elaborate complex could only have been built, as the result of a rather advanced civilization. One which was proficient in agriculture, very likely cultivated crops, as well as animals, and subsequently, had a surplus. They also had tools, with which they were able to construct that complex. No other explanation makes the slightest bit of sense.

Naturally, over a period of many generations, that same civilization fell into decline, eventually collapsed, and has been lost to history. 

That is by no means the only ‘’lost civilization’’. As I have documented, in a previous article, there was also an ancient civilization, in Egypt, at around the same time, perhaps ten thousand to twelve thousand years ago. Perhaps longer!

This ancient Egyptian civilization was truly advanced. They even used electricity, and not just for illumination. It was also used for operating machines, including diamond tipped saws, which cut granite blocks. Bear in mind that granite is as hard as steel. Examples of this can be seen in the Museum of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts, in Cairo. 

As I have documented this in a previous article, there is no need to repeat it here. 

Some of these artifacts on display, includes dishes, carved from solid blocks of granite! And not just plates and bowls. Also vases, complete with openings for fingers, at the top of the vases. 

This is most significant, as it is the opinion of an electrical engineer, a computer programmer, that it would be a challenge, to design a program which could carve a vase, from a block of concrete, to the accuracy attained by those ancient Egyptians! 

To think that an ancient Egyptian civilization had the technology which rivals our own! They were somehow able to write a program, perhaps to instruct a tape reader, to order a numerically controlled machine, complete with diamond tipped drill bits, to carve a vase, from a solid block of granite. As we are in possession of those vases, there can be no doubt, on that subject.

As well, there can also be no doubt that the same civilization, which was so advanced, fell into decline and collapsed. Could that same collapse happen to our civilization? What is to prevent the collapse of our civilization?

The answer to that question, in a ‘’nutshell’’, is the class of the Proletariat! Our civilization is the only one to experience an industrial revolution! Historians consider this to be the greatest thing to happen to humanity, since the cultivation of plants and animals. True! It gave birth to mass production! Yet it also gave birth to two new, revolutionary classes!

At the time of the industrial revolution, the class of people known as the ‘’burghers’’, saw the potential to become supremely wealthy, and invested their money in factories, mines, mills and other ‘’sources of production’’. Also railroads, shipping lines and other ‘’means of transportation’’. As well, banks and other ‘’financial institutions’’. 

I use this ‘’technical jargon’’, for the benefit of the working people, those who are just now becoming politically active. Tiresome or not, we have got to become familiar with such terms, as otherwise the capitalists will use our lack of awareness against us. 

To proceed. The burghers became transformed into capitalists, also known as the ‘’bourgeois’’. Now the absolute richest, the multi billionaires, are known as the ‘’bourgeoisie’’. Not that they refer to themselves in such a manner. They prefer to refer to themselves as ‘’business people’’, or ‘’entrepreneurs’’. 

This newly created class of capitalists, required people to run their machines. Such people, who sell themselves by the hour, are referred to as ‘’proletarians’’. Mind you, we tend to refer to ourselves as ‘’workers’’. A second revolutionary class!

Marx and Engels covered this supremely well, in the Communist Manifesto. As I have gone into this, on numerous occasions, in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that at first, the capitalists were truly revolutionary. That which they created, leaves no room for debate, on that subject. 

That all changed, and quite dramatically, at around the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time, capitalism reached its highest stage, that of monopoly, otherwise known as ‘’imperialism’’. Lenin covered this supremely well, in his book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. 

This too, I have covered in previous articles. Suffice it to say that, as Lenin stated, ‘’Imperialism is reaction, right down the line’’.

Monopoly capitalists, imperialists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are no longer the slightest bit revolutionary! Progressive they are not! They are completely reactionary!

Just as all previous civilizations- even the most advanced!- have collapsed, due to the fact that the ruling classes became completely reactionary, so too, our ruling class of multi billionaires is also determined to drive our civilization, ‘’into the ground’’. They must be stopped.

Allow me to stress the fact that the difference between our civilization, and all previous civilizations, is the fact that our civilization is the only civilization to have experienced an industrial revolution. This gave birth to the revolutionary working class, the proletariat! It is the revolutionary proletariat which is destined to overthrow the reactionary class of bourgeoisie, and prevent the collapse of our civilization!

It was Marx who first conducted a scientific examination of capitalism, and proved that it would lead to a state of socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This too, I have covered in previous articles.

Yet Marx also made it clear that the conditions of life, of the working class, the proletariat, does not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class, with its own class interests! That awareness must come from an outside source, middle class intellectuals. Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were middle class intellectuals.

In previous articles, I have compared the class struggle to a boxing match, but one in which one of the boxers is blindfolded. Of course, the boxer who is blindfolded represents the working class, swinging wildly in all directions. His opponent, who can see well, is able to land countless blows. But then he represents the capitalist class, and the bourgeois is supremely class conscious.

A childish comparison, I know, but one which serves to drive home the point. The ‘’blindfold’’ must be removed, which is to say that the working class must become aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests. Those interests include fighting the capitalist class, as our interests are diametrically opposed. 

There can be no doubt that our civilization is in decline. Our science books are filled with superstition, distortions and outright lies. As I have documented this in numerous previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here.

As well, the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught only in Universities, and then only with a view to distorting them. As it is mainly the children of the bourgeois who are able to attend University, these revolutionary theories are carefully concealed from the working class. 

In conclusion, our civilization is in decline, facing collapse, and it is only the revolutionary working class, the proletariat, which can reverse this decline. 

Now it is up to middle class intellectuals to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, to bring the most advanced workers to the level of Scientific Socialists, Communists, aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. As the proletariat is now quite cultured, so that most members own digital devices, and have access to the internet, this goal is now much easier than it was at the time of Lenin. 

We will know we are being successful in getting our message across, when the internet, as well as posters and banners, proclaim:

Workers of the World, Unite!

Scientific Socialism!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Peace! Democracy! Socialism!